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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

Bjarne Stroustrup

I do keep the main points straight in my head most of the time, and I do know where to find the details when I need them.
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Details Find Head Need
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
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Able Organization Treat
First, I’d like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.
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Cad Support Tools
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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Dangerous Language Program Think
With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
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Important Language Simple Use
[Corporate programming] is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate “culture” with no outlet for unique talents and skills.
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Outlet Practice Skills Unique
The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
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Important Learning Simplicity
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.
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Class Function Hirerachies Successful Use
This evolution may compromise Java’s claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.
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Effort Java May
I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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Able Assuming Forbidden
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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Language Perfect Salesman
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years

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